It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others.

I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience.

If you would like to leave footprints in the sands of time, you had better wear work shoes.

They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.

If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.